The Case for Unfair Competition
Captive operations like in-plants support their parent organizations’ missions, bringing better flexibility and control. For this reason, insists one university administrator, the competition should be unfair.
Sound crazy? It did to me, too…but I think the case is a pretty good one. Read on.
SDAEs are a problem, but they are indispensable on every campus. Service departments, such as the in-plant print shop, are those organizational units whose mission it is to serve the needs of other departments on a business-type basis. The key feature of a service department is that it charges for its services, rather than being mission-funded as are, say, academic and administrative departments.
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